Garrison, Lloyd K. (Lloyd Kirkham).
Papers, 1893-1990: Finding Aid.

Repository: Harvard Law School
Library, Harvard UniversityLocation: Harvard DepositoryCall No.: HOLLIS 3093953Creator: Garrison, Lloyd K. (Lloyd Kirkham), b.
1897Title: Papers,
1893-1990Quantity: 18 boxesAbstract: Contains a variety of materials relating
chiefly to his personal, political, and civil rights activities. The
collection contains family papers pre-dating Garrison's birth and
other personal correspondence with his friends and colleagues. Much
of this correspondence provides a unique look into the social and
political milieu of New York City in the mid-Twentieth Century. A
subseries titled, Major Correspondence, consists of correspondence
with noted legal figures. The papers also include materials related
to Garrison's work on the issues of global disarmament and
non-violence.

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Included are a variety of
materials relating chiefly to his personal, political, and civil
rights activities. The collection contains family papers pre-dating
Garrison's birth and other personal correspondence with his friends
and colleagues. Much of this correspondence provides a unique look
into the social and political milieu of New York City
in the mid-Twentieth Century. A subseries titled, Major
Correspondence, consists of correspondence with noted legal figures
such as Adlai Stevenson, Felix Frankfurter, C. C. Burlingham,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Pauli Murray, and Martin Luther King. The
papers also include materials related to Garrison's work on the
issues of global disarmament and non-violence.

SERIES 1:Autobiographical Materials,
1902-1986 Box 1 This SERIES, arranged by topic chronologically, includes a variety
of materials written by Garrison and related to his personal life,
his family, and his career. (Miscellaneous and undated materials are
placed last.)

SERIES 2:Correspondence,
1895-1990 Boxes 2-7 This SERIES contains correspondence divided into three
categories:

SUBSERIES A:Major Correspondence,
1931-1988arranged
alphabetically by correspondent, comprises letters to and from
Garrison involving major correspondents.

SUBSERIES C:General Correspondence,
1932-1990also
arranged chronologically, comprises general correspondence of both a
personal and professional nature.(Note: Correspondence
involving individual legal cases is not generally included in these
papers.)

SERIES 3:Manuscripts, Articles, Speeches and Tributes,
1946-1984 Boxes 8-10 This SERIES includes both published and unpublished materials
written by Garrison, and is arranged by topic.

SUBSERIES AManuscripts, Notes and Source Materials,
1946-1984consists
of two categories:

BOX 8contains manuscripts, notes and source materials for an
unpublished book on non-violence.

BOX 9contains manuscripts and notes on several other topics,
arranged alphabetically.

BOX 10divided into three categories (each arranged alphabetically):
articles (including an indexed notebook) and similar materials;
speeches; and memorial tributes to friends and colleagues.

SERIES 4:Political, Legal and Civic Activities,
1933-1990 Boxes 11-16 This SERIES includes a variety of materials concerning Garrison's
involvement in activities such as civil rights, disarmament, labor
law, and politics.

SUBSERIES A:Major Activities,
1938-1985contains
major activities and is arranged alphabetically by general
topics.

Labor Activities

Law Firm
Activities

New York Board of Education

New
York Democratic Politics

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

University Of Wisconsin Law School

SUBSERIES B:Other Activities,
1933-1990is an
alphabetical arrangement of other activities.

SERIES 5:Other Personal Papers and Ephemera,
1893-1991 Boxes 17-18 This SERIES includes assorted materials written by persons other
than Garrison. It is divided into four SUBSERIES, each arranged
alphabetically by topic:

SUBSERIES A:Family Papers and Related Materials,
1893-1986includes
a variety of family papers.

Lloyd K.
Garrison was born on November 19, 1897 in New York City. Garrison was
a great-grandson of the famous abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison,
and the grandson of Wendell Phillips Garrison, the literary editor of
The Nation. After service in the Navy in World
War I, rising to the rank of chief petty officer, he graduated from
Harvard College in 1919 and from Harvard Law School in 1922. He
commenced practice in New York City with the firm of Root,
Clark, Buckner & Howland, now known as
Dewey, Ballantine.

In 1930, his long
career of government service started as Special Assistant to the
Attorney General of the United States conducting an investigation of
the bankruptcy laws. He served as the first chairman of the
National Labor Relations Board in 1935,
thereafter general counsel. Garrison was appointed a member of the
National War Labor Board in 1944 and became
Vice-Chairman in March of 1945. He was active as a mediator and
referee in many labor disputes, including a threatened
General Motors strike in 1945, which established
the pattern for wage increases in post-war labor relations. In 1947,
he was appointed by the United States Supreme Court as a Special
Master in a dispute between the State of Georgia and twenty
railroads.

He was Dean of the University of
Wisconsin Law School from 1932 to 1945, making that
institution rise to greater academic prominence as one of the top
American law schools. After W.W.II, he became a member of the New
York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Wharton & Garrison
and remained as a partner and counsel until his death. He
was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University from
1938 to 1944, a member of the Board of Directors of the Field
Foundation (1950-1973), a Trustee of the Taconic and Potomac
Foundations (1953-1991), and a Trustee of Sarah Lawrence
University and Howard University.

Long active in the civil rights movement, he was Director and
then President (1947-1952) of the National Urban League. He remained
active in the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the
American Civil Liberties Union. Between 1962 and 1968, a turbulent
period of educational crisis in New York City involving teachers
strikes, deterioration of schools and issues of racial integration,
decentralization and minority participation in the educational
system, he was a member of the New York City Board of Education,
serving as Vice President in 1963 and President from 1965 to
1967.

He was a leader in the Democratic Reform Movement in New
York City and in 1952 was elected to the Democratic State Committee.
He later was a key member in the effort led by him, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Thomas Finletter, and
Herbert Lehman to oust Carmine DeSapio
as New York County Democratic Leader in the years 1958
through 1961. A long-time friend of Adlai Stevenson, he was Chairman
of the 1952 Stevenson Citizens Committee in New York and an active
supporter in 1956. It was largely through his efforts that Stevenson
became a partner in the Paul, Weiss firm from 1957 to 1961.

As
a lawyer, he handled many significant cases including: the litigation
which blocked the construction of a power plant at Storm
King Mountain; the representation of the poet Langston
Hughes (1953) and the playwright Arthur Miller
before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
(1956); and the defense of J. Robert Oppenheimer when the Atomic
Energy Commission sought to remove his security clearance.

The following catalog entries represent persons, organizations,
and topics documented in this collection. An entry for each appears
in the Harvard On Line Library Information System (HOLLIS) and other
automated bibliographic databases. THIS IS NOT AN INDEX.